January 4 – A spokesman for the Vice and Virtue Ministry of the Taliban announces the arrest of an undetermined number of women for wearing "bad hijab", in the first known crackdown on dress code since their return to power in August 2021.[1]
January 29 – Ten collisions occur on the main highway linking Kabul and Nangarhar Province, killing 17 people and wounding ten more. Separately, fifteen people are killed during four collisions in Laghman Province, near the end of the same highway.[4]
February 20 – March 13 – At least 60 people are killed and 23 others are injured due to flooding and adverse weather conditions involving snow and rain nationwide.[6]
March 18 – Five women and three children are killed during two Pakistaniairstrikes in Khost and Paktika provinces following accusations that attacks in Pakistan were masterminded in Afghanistan, which the Taliban deny. In response, the Taliban opens fire on Pakistani troops at the border.[8]
April 12-14 – At least 33 people are killed and 27 others are injured in flash floods caused by heavy rain in 20 provinces nationwide including in Kabul.[11]
April 17 – The Taliban orders the suspension of the television channels Noor TV and Barya TV for allegedly failing to “consider national and Islamic values”.[12]
April 20 – One person is killed and three others are injured in a car bombing at a predominantly Hazara neighborhood in Kabul.[13]
Six people, including three Spanish nationals, are killed and seven others are injured in a gun attack in Bamiyan.[18] The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.[19]
At least 84 people are killed during flash floods in Ghor and Faryab Provinces.[20]
July 30 – The Taliban suspends relations with 14 Afghan overseas diplomatic missions and announces that they will no longer accept consular documents issued by these missions.[25]
August 5 – The Taliban allows foreigners inside the country on visas issued by the former government to stay, while those with visas but are outside Afghanistan would not be allowed to enter without documents from a Taliban-approved diplomatic mission.[26]
August 13 – Three Afghan civilians are killed during clashes between the Taliban and Pakistani forces at the Torkham border crossing.[29]
August 17 – Uzbekistani Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov becomes the highest ranking foreign official to visit Afghanistan since the return of the Taliban in 2021.[30]
August 20 –
The Taliban bans United Nations special rapporteur on human rights to Afghanistan Richard Bennett from entering the country for spreading "propaganda".[31]
The Taliban's virtue ministry dismisses 281 members of the security force for failing to grow a beard and announces that they also destroyed 21,328 musical instruments in the past year and prevented thousands of computer operators from selling "immoral and unethical" films in markets.[32]
August 21 – The Taliban issues new laws on vice and virtue severely curtailing women's rights.[33]
August 29 – The Taliban bans mixed martial arts, saying it is too violent and has a risk of death and that it is incompatible with Islamic law.[34]
September 2 – Six people are killed and 13 others are injured in a suicide bombing in the Qala Bakhtiar neighbourhood of Kabul. The Islamic State takes responsibility the following day.[35]
September 16 – The United Nations announces the suspension of the country's polio vaccination program by the Taliban.[37]
September 17 – The Taliban announces the reopening of the Afghan embassy in Muscat, Oman.[38]
September 22 – Iran summons the acting head of Afghanistan's embassy after saying that a visiting Afghan official disrespected the country's national anthem by not standing during a performance of the anthem, days after a similar incident occurred in Pakistan. The Afghan delegate apologizes, claiming that this was because the public performance of music is banned by the Taliban.[39]
September 27 – The Afghan embassy in London closes down following an "official request" by the United Kingdom's Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, according to Ambassador Zalmai Rassoul. However, the FCO says that the decision to close the embassy was made by the "State of Afghanistan".[40]
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